It’s been pretty bad for a while now.

I used to go to reddit to learn something new, to see the news for the day, to find a cool new hobby or interest, to read deep discussions about topics that I didn’t know that much about.

But that was like 8 or 9 years ago.

Lately the entire front page is doom bait, vaguely disguised racism, political trolling, violence, memes, and reposts.

I used to browse /r/all about half of the time and my subscribed subs the other half.

I muted serial reposters / content farmers whenever I noticed them, but this past year I hit a breaking point and I changed my default feed to subs only and intentionally chose to avoid /r/all.

Sucks that I’m going to lose my niche communities on reddit, but I’ve been a lot happier here so far.